| 1. | And set a double varnish on the fam. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | I confess both they are both the varnish of a complet. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | I shall probably have to give it another coat of varnish before that, so I must see it some day, and why not to-day. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | The grains of black and white millet would stick to the varnish and look like embroidery. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 7. | It lightly deposits a thin film of shellac over the work, acting as a varnish and preventing its rubbing off. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 8. | Over this apply liquid varnish and white with a stick, then wash it with urine when it is dry, and dry it again. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 9. | The ink is composed of a varnish of boiled linseed oil and any of the lithographic colours to be commercially obtained. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |